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...that they all compete directly with government-owned and government-favored British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corp. While those two lines were awarded the profitable high-density routes, Eagle got hand-me-downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when BOAC complained that Eagle was trying to turn a low-rate, special-tour authorization to the Caribbean into a regular run, the licensing board revoked Eagle...
Actor Henry Fonda, 61, squinted at the watercolor in Manhattan's Cober Gallery and grinned: "My, what a lovely painting. I wonder who did that." Actually, the masterpiece, entitled The Old Quarter, Gerona, was an original 1966 Fonda. Hank, who paints as much as he acts, donated Gerona to a benefit sale for the Gotham Chapter of Retarded Infants Services, an event that also featured the efforts of such old masters as Soupy Sales and Xavier Cugat. "I take such a joy in painting," said Fonda, inspecting the art with his wifely muse of five months, Shirlee...
...agricultural school in Gerona, a retreat for bullfighters in Asturias, a workers' training center in Madrid, and Spain's only "free" (i.e., nongovernment) university, in Pamplona. Last year 15,000 Spaniards attended its theology seminars, 12,000 spent their vacations in its centers of "spiritual retirement," and 20,000 children enrolled in its 143 summer camps. Driven to a fervor that is positively un-Spanish, Opus Dei members have risen to control of one of Spain's largest banks, many newspapers and magazines, a news agency, a jazz club-and to more than a dozen positions...
...American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose body is formed partly of flies. Why? Easy, says Dali: "Le French cavalry que attacked Gerona in 1808 was defeated by many, many flies from zee grave of Narcissus." Dali maintains that Columbus was born in Gerona...
...According to one historian, Luis Ulloa, Columbus was a Catalan from the province of Gerona. Dali therefore has evidence that his theory is more than an inspired pun on Genoa, the accepted birthplace of Columbus...